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Finance Minister Liebenberg presents the 1996-97 Budget, reports continuing economic growth and underlines his aim of building

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Anglo-Boer War 2: A Republican delegation consisting of A. Fischer, A.D.W. Wolmarans, C.H. Wessels with J.M. de Bruin as secret

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Sen. François S. Malan, editor of Die Patriot and founder of the FAK, is born at Bovlei near Wellington.

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Outspoken Kenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia (82), a friend and later rival of the country’s founding president Jomo Kenyat

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Mozambique’s former president Joaquim Chissano, who steered his country for eighteen years after helping end a long and brutal

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Zimbabwe seizes a US-registered cargo plane carrying sixty-four suspected mercenaries and military equipment. Simon Mann, of th

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An agreement is reached between President F.W. de Klerk, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and Inkatha’s Mangosuthu Buthelezi restr

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Adolphe Mabille, Swiss missionary, Sotho philologist and Bible translator, dies at Morija, Basutoland (Lesotho) where he was st

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Two white death sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are noticed at Plettenberg Bay, Cape south coast, and bathing is prohibited.

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Moses Mauane (Malume) Kotane, political functionary of the South African Communist Party and compositor of the communist newspa

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Arthur Conan Doyle, medic during Anglo-Boer War 2 and subsequent author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, is born.

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Sefako Mapogo Makgatho, teacher, politician and journalist, born in Pietersburg (now Polokwane) district in 1861, dies in River

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The IFP withdraws from the inter-governmental forum, which provides for liaison between the central and provincial governments.

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Tribal clashes continue to take place in Pondoland (Transkei) between supporters and opponents of the African territorial autho

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South Africa signs a multilateral declaration on the provisional accession of Iceland to the General Agreement on Tariffs and T

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President Mandela visits Togo for a few hours. He and Togolese President Eyadema review the situation in West Africa.

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Dr. Basil Moore, Johannesburg Methodist Minister, staff member of the Christian Institute and acting Secretary of the Universit

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National Police Commissioner George Fivaz announces plans to restructure the South African Police Service (SAPS) and later seek

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Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, politician and former leader of the Progressive Federal Party, is born in Pretoria.

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A bus service replaces the train commuter service between Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, and the Pretoria city centre. Commut

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Dr Monwabisi Bevan Goqwana, MEC for Health, Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature and former specialist physician at Umtata Hospi

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Abortive Middelburg peace talks between Lord Kitchener and Commandant-General Louis Botha takes place during

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Sytzke Wopkes Wierda, designer of the Raadsaal on Church Square, Pretoria, Paardekraal monument in Krugersdorp and a number of

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Members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) march to Pretoria and call for a Volkstaat for the Afrikaner people.

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South Africa signs multilateral agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency, South Africa and the United States fo

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The Rev. Charles Murray, fifth child of the Rev. Andrew Murray and compiler of the Hallelujaboek, is born.

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The Anglo American Corporation amalgamates its administration of Orange Free State mines and forms Freegold (Free State Consoli

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Dr. Allan Boesak and the journalist Elna Botha is married in the St. Stephens church in Cape Town.

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Welfare and Population Development Minister, Abe Williams, resigns in the face of corruption allegations relating to missing pe

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Raymond Mhlaba (85), African National Congress veteran, Rivonia trialist and first premier of the Eastern Cape Province, dies s

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Finance Minister Liebenberg presents the 1996-97 Budget, reports continuing economic growth and underlines his aim of building

Anglo-Boer War 2: A Republican delegation consisting of A. Fischer, A.D.W. Wolmarans, C.H. Wessels with J.M. de Bruin as secret

Sen. François S. Malan, editor of Die Patriot and founder of the FAK, is born at Bovlei near Wellington.

Outspoken Kenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia (82), a friend and later rival of the country’s founding president Jomo Kenyat

Mozambique’s former president Joaquim Chissano, who steered his country for eighteen years after helping end a long and brutal

Zimbabwe seizes a US-registered cargo plane carrying sixty-four suspected mercenaries and military equipment. Simon Mann, of th

An agreement is reached between President F.W. de Klerk, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and Inkatha’s Mangosuthu Buthelezi restr

Adolphe Mabille, Swiss missionary, Sotho philologist and Bible translator, dies at Morija, Basutoland (Lesotho) where he was st

Two white death sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are noticed at Plettenberg Bay, Cape south coast, and bathing is prohibited.

Moses Mauane (Malume) Kotane, political functionary of the South African Communist Party and compositor of the communist newspa

Arthur Conan Doyle, medic during Anglo-Boer War 2 and subsequent author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, is born.

Sefako Mapogo Makgatho, teacher, politician and journalist, born in Pietersburg (now Polokwane) district in 1861, dies in River

The IFP withdraws from the inter-governmental forum, which provides for liaison between the central and provincial governments.

Tribal clashes continue to take place in Pondoland (Transkei) between supporters and opponents of the African territorial autho

South Africa signs a multilateral declaration on the provisional accession of Iceland to the General Agreement on Tariffs and T

President Mandela visits Togo for a few hours. He and Togolese President Eyadema review the situation in West Africa.

Dr. Basil Moore, Johannesburg Methodist Minister, staff member of the Christian Institute and acting Secretary of the Universit

National Police Commissioner George Fivaz announces plans to restructure the South African Police Service (SAPS) and later seek

Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, politician and former leader of the Progressive Federal Party, is born in Pretoria.

A bus service replaces the train commuter service between Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, and the Pretoria city centre. Commut

Dr Monwabisi Bevan Goqwana, MEC for Health, Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature and former specialist physician at Umtata Hospi

Anglo-Boer War 2: Abortive Middelburg peace talks between Lord Kitchener and Commandant-General Louis Botha takes place during

Sytzke Wopkes Wierda, designer of the Raadsaal on Church Square, Pretoria, Paardekraal monument in Krugersdorp and a number of

Members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) march to Pretoria and call for a Volkstaat for the Afrikaner people.

South Africa signs multilateral agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency, South Africa and the United States fo

The Rev. Charles Murray, fifth child of the Rev. Andrew Murray and compiler of the Hallelujaboek, is born.

The Anglo American Corporation amalgamates its administration of Orange Free State mines and forms Freegold (Free State Consoli

Dr. Allan Boesak and the journalist Elna Botha is married in the St. Stephens church in Cape Town.

Welfare and Population Development Minister, Abe Williams, resigns in the face of corruption allegations relating to missing pe

Raymond Mhlaba (85), African National Congress veteran, Rivonia trialist and first premier of the Eastern Cape Province, dies s